<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29705]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is too late, they have a job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47470]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends but on whatever they feel is worthy, without any external influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45210]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4619]]></link><description><![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53853]]></link><description><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hygiene is two thirds of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hygiene is two thirds of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21214]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant qu'on vous esorche.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,  And live a coward in thine own esteem, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,  And live a coward in thine own esteem,   Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'    Like the poor cat i' th' adage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is made of a green cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is made of a green cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime, commits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51156]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime, commits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3501]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a blast. It was very intense and every game was a must-win game. I would do it again ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a blast. It was very intense and every game was a must-win game. I would do it again if asked and almost every player I have talked to from different nations would come back again. It was terrific chemistry and I'm thankful I got the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46515]]></link><description><![CDATA[All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46158]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46158</guid></item></channel></rss>